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RealityKings1:
He's actually deliberately misinterpreting the bible. He's not doing it because of a mistake or lack of education.

Only God knows his intentions

I wonder how one will read the Bible and still gallantly contradict it, and then want me to believe that contradiction, when I can also read and understand.

It's not that difficult to know such people…

Sunnyshinylight:
Hello? Are you there,? You didn't answer my question, alright I believe you have kids, tell them everyday.... you must fear me. Do you ever think that is what GOD ALMIGHTIEST demands from you? That you should fear HIM when HE hasn't given you the spirit of fear.?

I frankly understand that this is touching your religious beliefs about fear. But I must warn you to stay away from the spirit of fear.

What THE LORD demands from you all is respectful reverence alright!

Is the Bible wrong and you are right now?

The Bible says, "Fear GOD"
You say, "Don't fear GOD!"

Do you even see how you sound?
Do you even know this GOD we are talking about?
Has He ever for once shown Himself to you?

44 Hamas, 2 IDF.

MistyDense:
I don't know if anyone of you can relate to this. But to be truthful, I can't continue taking up these multiple responsibilities anymore.

I'm the oldest of four younger siblings, and we just have one Male among us, who is the Last born. I'm training him in sch, a tertiary institution. The other two girls are already done with their school and are presently learning some skills.
None is contributing anything. I work from Mondays to Sundays without Rest. From house rent to feeding, to medics, transport, sch fees, light bills and others, I do all of them. I make sure I work to earn every penny I make. It is so bad that I don't have any savings. My clothes are worn out cos I can't afford new ones. Also, I can't afford my soap and cream any longer because there are more pressing issues to fix.
The burden has become so much, coupled with stress from work. Sometimes I overthink things and breakdown.
My mum isn't working due to her sight. She's completely Without sight. I had to hire someone to be taking care of her as we all go out for our daily activities.
I'm thinking of asking my younger brother to drop out for now so that the burden can reduce for now, but I don't know how to tell him because I don't know how he would feel. He's already in 200L.. It will break him I know, but I'm trying to cut cost at least for a year first, before he can return back to sch. If this happens, I fear he may take his life, due to the passion he has for sch. He's a very bright student. The most academically sound person in my family.

A lot of pressure is on me. I don't want to do what other girls are doing. I don't want to start sleeping with men for money because I need to protect my dignity as a woman until I'm married. I've turned down a lot of suitors already because I don't want to drag them into my family's struggles and later they start insulting me for being a burden to them. I refused to marry for now because of this.
Life isn't easy and hasn't being easy since the loss of our dad 10years ago.

Sometimes, I stay in my room and cry all through the night. I can't share my struggles with anyone for fear of being mocked and insulted behind my back.
Sometimes I feel like running far away that nobody will be able to see me or even call my lines.
I'm really messed up.
At times, I feel like I should just vanish from the surface of the earth.

I'm just confused.

Nlfpmod

This kind of life makes people who don't know you think you're not serious with your life…

All I'll say is, if your siblings acknowledge and appreciate your effort, then good… don't give up yet, but make sure you get married before it's too late!
If you don't want to involve the man you'd marry, fine… but don't pause your love life.

I know what I'm saying o!

Is this OP a human, male, female, bot, or what?

Sunnyshinylight:
Do you know what fear is? Try study the subject fear alright. Most of you are really shallow minds and don't care about your spiritual growth.

What you have are errors in translation of men.

Fear is a spirit and is not to be operated by the children of GOD ALMIGHTIEST.

Do you realise that the scripture said...

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Scripture interpretes scripture.

Fear torments alright, the first time the word fear was used was by the first man Adam.......

"Genesis 3:9 And the LORD GOD called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."

"I was afraid of judgement" I was so scared because I messed up with what you said I shouldn't do.

All these translations you read about saying fear the lord, fear God should have been translated respect GOD, and have reverence for THE HIGHEST.

I want to ask you a question, do you fear your parents or you respect your them, or do you rather want your children to fear you or to respect you.

THE SCRIPTURE TOLD YOU THAT FEAR HAS TORMENT, ARE YOU TORMENTED FOREVER?

Oh you'd say that's not the kind fear we're talking about, right? Fear is fear, same way death is death.

And this is the problem I'll always have with misleading doctrines like this.

You quoted:

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
— 2 Timothy 1:7 (KJV)

Do you even understand what the Scripture there is saying before ascribing it to God?
It is saying there you are not to be afraid of every forces of men and spirits! Not God!
Stop misinterpeting the Bible gallantly.

If you have ever for once seen God in your visions/dreams/revelations, you won't be here telling anyone not to fear God.

chiefolododo:
i noticed that some countries that used to fight Israel have given themselves sense

You said my mind.

Jennyclay:
How that Randy promiscuous delta man called king Solomon tried to cut that baby all in the name of settling disputes

I guess it was a man that ki*lled you in your previous life… You'd miss a man in the nearest future...

Sunnyshinylight:
We need have no fear of GOD ALMIGHTIEST who loves us perfectly; HIS PERFECT LOVE for us eliminates all dread of what HE might do to us.

If we are afraid, it is for fear of what HE might do to us and shows that we are not fully convinced that HE really loves us.

So you see, our love for HIM comes as a result of HIS LOVING us first.

But the Bible taught us contrary to this.
The Bible emphasized on us fearing GOD.

“Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.”
— Psalms 66:16 (KJV)

“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
— Ecclesiastes 12:13 (KJV)

“Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
— Revelation 14:7 (KJV)

“Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”
— 1 Peter 2:17 (KJV)

“But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”
— Luke 12:5 (KJV)

Why then should you say we should not fear GOD?

One of the major reasons Nigeria isn't moving forward.
Everyone is just after the money… not development.

Greed is a major concern in the country...
Greed.

Compensate?
Then I'll be the governor of Anambra or Abia State first, before that can happen in my indigenous state too.

Kushites:
Who said Kenya hates us? OP posted that Kenyans love Nigerians. Read well.

I guess you didn't understand my comment though… I guess I sounded quite ironical.
How do I lay it easier…? 🤔

OK… let me say, "How can Kenyans hate Nigerians? It's only some of their men that does that… not their women."

Is the above clearer?

Kenyans hating Nigerians? It's only some of their men that does that… not their women.

franchasng:
Nigeria was never meant to be one nation if you consider our differences and views about life, but out of greed for free crude oil money and wickedness, some people have refused to accept the truth that Nigeria's diversity is a weakness and never a strength like we always pretend.


If we must advance beyond where we are, we must peacefully agree to end this forced marriage called Nigeria since we cannot allow equity, justice and fairness to be our national policy

I agree with you on this…

I had the same dream day before yesterday… if it should happen… Nigeria may not survive it as a country…

Is Reno now an IPOB too?
Because this country is Just going down the slope.

Well, now I'll like to see who will cry genocide again after the Ceasefire Agreement had been breached.

Waste of money…

MaxInDHouse:
This is totally unchristian and it's a subtle way the Antichrist is using to attack Christianity!

Imagine an Atheist, Agnostic, Buddhist, Traditionalist, Judaist, Hindu, Muslim or Freethinker who have never been to a place where you people are singing and dancing in the name of Jesus then someone just walk up to him and say:



How do you think such a person will feel when next he or she meets someone who claims to be a Christian?

Surely he or she will feel they are set of brainwashed people because his first experience with someone who mentioned the name "Jesus" is not something nice to write home about!😟

How did Jesus establish this work we are doing today?

Jesus called his friends who knew him from childhood and told them "be my follower" {Matthew 9:9} these people accepted instantly because they grew up together in the same neighborhood so they knew Jesus to be different from all other children not that he just wake up one day and started calling random people to follow him.

The next thing he did was to start saying: "repent for the kingdom of God is near" {Matthew 4:17} all his friends were Jews and they knew what their God promised their ancestors about a child who will be born among them to rule the whole earth {Isaiah 9:6} so hearing Jesus say that isn't strange to them but then the question in their hearts is "could Jesus be the promised child or Messiah?" they didn't ask him until they say him performing the greatest miracles in the history of God's people:
*Jesus made food in abundance! John 6:10-13 compare to Psalms 72:16
*Jesus healed the deaf and dumb! Mark 7:31-35 compare to Isaiah 35:6
*Jesus healed the crippled! Matthew 9:2-8 compare to Isaiah 35:6
*Jesus raised the dead! John 11:44-45 compare to Isaiah 25:8

With all these Jesus' friends were fully convinced that he is the Christ! Matthew 16:13-16

But how did he tell them to preach the same message to their neighbors?

Las las the block don expire.
I dey come.
No need to run from me again.
I don't bite.

TONYE001:
The exact question I asked. I think it's a masterplan to hide. What are the chances that he'd be caught in the USA? As he may have calculated, he was more likely to be caught in the Middle East, and least likely in the USA.

Well, thankfully, he was wrong.

A very good miscalculation.
He must have thought he's a pro when he got into the country on a fake visa.

Kobojunkie:
1. Wrong! What OP described is an interference. Look up the meaning of the different words so you do not keep confusing one for the other.

2. Wrong! The reason most people end up getting killed is that they remain in abusive relationships for longer than they reasonably should. Also, family interference has been linked to the escalation of violence in many situations.

What the OP described was intervention to prevent the unforeseen.
Someone they've been having issues with, who they know to be violent, suddenly stabbed their son/brother in the neck and you expect them to sit and watch what will unfold?

What if the stab was deep?
What if the stab cuts through an artery and he died?
Will you be saying these?

I forgot you're Kobojunkie.

FarahAideed:
You dey mind them

He caused chaos and wanted to live in peace… 😂

Kobojunkie:
1. Marriage is between a man and his wife, not his family and his/her family have no right to interfere in their marriage or their divorce. They can come in to help their ward move his/her things from the marital home after a divorce but they have no legal right to come in to throw the other partner out even if the other partner is legally required to do so.

All that gra-gra barbarian sheet Nigerians are used to doing is reason why nothing seems tow ork of make sense. The sooner people begin adopting more civil ways of doing things, the sooner they begin to see common sense begin to reign in their lives and hopefully society.

All these epistle of yours is very very pointless.

Interfering in their marriage is a different thing here. When things go wrong as for the partner becoming abusive and violent, if it's your child or sibling, you'd sit and watch them get killed before you act; all in the name of not wanting to interfere?

That is not interference even… that's intervening.

Your view here is why some people (husband or the wife) end up getting killed/murdered in their marriage by their abusive partner because they want their families to stay away from their marriage when things go south.

Why did he go to the US instead of going to an Arabian country…?

The question is, how true is this news?

That's one reason I hate being beside these heavy duty trucks/flat beds once they're ladened.

Kobojunkie:
Congratulations @OP!1. Why is your family putting their mouth when the decision is yours? Did they have some sort of contract with your wife that they then feel it is their place to interfere in the divorce?

2. Good decision! From your post, it is not clear if you have actually implemented the divorce or if you only recently decided on this.

3. Please, be sure to opt for shared/joint custody of your children(or full custody if you feel your wife is a threat to them), so you can only have a part in the raising of your own children and maybe have them at least 2 weeks out of each month.

Remove your "Point 1".
No sane family will watch the wife of their son murder him in the name of marriage before reacting.

"Points 2 & 3" are good enough and well said without "Point 1".

Finally, Europe is waking up…

olyrayy:
Yes. Nigeria is a very poor country. A lot of Nigerians are under the illusion that we're rich and prosperous. The government should pay for my light, electricity, school fees, fuel, etc. They have the money, but they're looting it.

Sorry to burst your bubble. But Nigeria is actually a very poor country, even if we account for the looting and all other nonsense.

To calculate someone's wealth, you use their income and expenses.

I had a look at Nigeria's budget, which is basically how much we spend. And it's so freaking low. Especially if you divide it by our population.

You can check the list of countries by budget expenditure per capita. Nigeria is right next to shithole broke countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and co. When you think of those countries, do you think of rich countries?

Most Nigerians think that we're rich like Saudi Arabia. But we're not. We're poverty stricken.

I recently discovered just right now that Iraq earned $90 billion from oil in 2024. How much did Nigeria earn? $30 billion. Meanwhile, Iraq has to share $90 billion amongst 50 million people while Nigeria has to share for 200 million.

And I literally saw someone online lamenting about Iraq being a shithole third world country.

By the way, check out the budget for our African peers like Egypt and South Africa. Egypt's budget is 3x higher than ours.

Of course, you could say that we are rich in natural resources bla bla bla. I doubt we are as rich in resources as most Nigerians think. But even if we were, it doesn't mean shit. Potential income is not the same as income. I mean... I could as well say that if you work hard and start a business, you could be a billionaire. But you're not. You're most likely poor. Potential to be rich is not the same as being rich.

Once you understand that Nigeria is actually a poor country, many Nigerians would know where the problem starts from and stop saying asinine shit like government should pay for my light, electricity, fuel, school fees, food, and even my wedding.

What does Israel have, compared to Nigeria?
Leave the population out of this for now.

And point of correction, I've never met a Nigerian who said the government should pay for the amenities you mentioned there. Nigerians have always been self sufficient…

They just kept emerging… when did this country get to this point?